Barbary Coast, n.
the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates
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Barbary Coast
a part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849)
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Barbary Coast
sample sentences
"we'll tolerate no Barbary Coast in this city!"
semantic pointers
hypernym